Dear colleagues, I would like to present an additional argument in support of including the libnatspec package in the distribution. At the moment, at least two Debian packages contain code that addresses a similar task. These are the 7zip and far2l packages. Both applications use locale-to-OEM-codepage translation tables to work correctly with the code pages used for encoding filenames in some .zip archives. Including such tables in every application that works with .zip archives (and generally, with any files that may historically contain data in OEM or ANSI encoding, such as ID3 tags in some mp3 files) does not seem like the most logical solution, as any changes to the tables would require modifying each application individually. Based on this, I would propose including the package with the libnatspec library, which addresses the same task, in the distribution. I also know someone who is willing to maintain the package.
Thank you! Best regards, Ivan Sorokin
